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' No. 465,271. Patented Dec. 15. 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO T HE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

lBUTTON.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,271, dated December 15, 1891.

Application filed November 17, 1890. Serial No. 371,675. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, Jr., of Waterbury, in the county of New Ha: Ven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and theletters of reference-marked thereon,to be a-full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of the button complete; Fig. 2, a side view showing the shank and flange in vertical central section; Fig. 3, a side view showing the shank in vertical central section as prepared to receive the flange or collar; Fig. at, the flange or collar as prepared for attachment to the button; Fig. 5, a modification in the means for securing the flange to the button. Fig. 6 represents the fastening device havingits engaging surface roughened. V

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of buttons which are constructed with a shank projecting from the button and so as to take a bearing on the material to which the button is to be attached that a space may be left between the button and the surface to which it is attached to accommodate the material which is placed over the button. The shanks of this class of buttons have been contracted at their outer ends so as to form an annular shoulder around the shank for the bearing of the shank, and with such buttons an eyelet has been introduced through a hole made in the material, so that the contracted portion of the shank would pass through the e5 elet, bringing the shoulder of the shank to bear upon the face side, while the projecting end of the shank would be interlocked Withthe fastener or upset upon the reverse side to secure the button within the eyelet. In other cases a washer has been placed upon the surface of the material, havinga hole through it corresponding to the contracted end of the shank, and so that the contracted end of the I shank would pass through the washer and the shoulder of the shank come to a bearing thereon. Then the upsetting or interlocking of the shank upon the reverse side would bind the button upon the washer, and thus secure the washer upon the surface. In either case the bearing-piece for the button upon the surface of the material is a detached piece, which is objectionable.

The object of my invention is to overcome this objection and securely interlock the bearing piece, flange, or Washer with the shank, so that it becomes a permanent part of the button; and the invention consists in combining with a button-shank an annular flange made separate from the shank, but interlocked therewith, so as to become a permanent part of the button,'and as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the button, B the shank, and C the annular flange, which is distant from the body of the button corresponding to the distance which itis required that the button shall stand from the surface of the material.

In the first illustrationI show the flange as made in the form of a flat collar or Washer, as seen in Fig. 4. It is'cut from sheet metal, having a hole athrough its center. The body of the shank B of the button is made of a larger diameter than the hole a, and is contracted at its outer end, so as to form an annular shoulder 19 on the shank at the point where the washer or collar C is to stand. The contracted end of the shank is passed through the hole a in the collar C and so as to bring the shoulder b to a bearing upon the surface of the collar. The contracted end of the shank projecting from the reverse side of the collar is then expanded, so as to set over the reverse side of the flange or collar C and so as to firmly interlock the collar or flange with the shank. The interlocking of the flange and shank may be made by the expansion of the contracted end of the shank, as seen in Fi 2; or it may be made, as seen in Fig. 5, by upsetting the shanl so as to form an annular head 61 upon the reverse side of the flange,

tube corresponding to the internal diameter of the shank and of a length so that the shoulder formed in the reduction of the shank will come to a bearing against the end of this tubular re-enforce. The tube will be of a thickness to give the required strength, or it may be a solid piece of wire. This re-enforce will permit the making of the shank of thinner metal than could be employed without such re-enforce, and the thinner the metal the more easily the interlocking is produced, and also the upsetting ot' the end of the tube in fastening the button is more easily accomplished. By this construction a bearing collar or flange of very considerable surface may be combined withthebuttou,anditbeingfirmlyinterlocked with the shank avoids the objections or difficulties which are experienced in the employment of buttons in which the flange is detached or easily detachable from the shank.

To strengthen the engagement between the flange O and the surface of the material to which the button is applied the flange is,

roughened upon its under surface, as seen in Figs. land 2. This roughening is best produced by punching from the outside toward the opposite side, so as to throw the metal out in the form of pointsf. This roughening may be applied to the washer or fastening employed upon the reverse side of the material and between which and the flange O the material is clamped. Such a washer is shown in Fig. 7, it being made substantially the same diameter as that of the flange O, with an opening through it corresponding to the projecting end of the button-shank,and the surface of the washer, which is to come upon the material, is roughened in like manner as the flange O, and as clearly seen in Fig. 7. The washerthus roughened is applied in the usual manner of applying the washer-that is, it is set over the shank of the button after the shank has passed through the material and pressed firmly thereon, so as to engage the material between the flange and the washer and then the shank upset upon the washer. This same roughening may apply to any fastening device employed in connection with the flange and shank of the button.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, a button having a flange around its shank to form a base upon which the button may rest and so as to leave a shank between the button and the flange, as such, I am aware, is not new.

I claim 1. In a button having a tubular shank projecting therefrom and by which tubular shank the button is to be secured, the combination therewith of an'annular'flange around theshank in a plane at right angles to the shank and at a distance between the end of the shank and the button, so that the tubular end of the shank may protrude through the said flange as a means for securing the button, the said flange interlocked with the shank to secure it in such location on the shank, substantially as described.

2. A button having a tubular shank B contracted at its outer end so as to form an annular shoulder b, a collar having a hole through it corresponding to the contracted end of the shank, arranged upon the contracted end of the shank and so as to rest against the said shoulder, the contracted end projecting through the hole in the collar and the projecting contracted portion-of the shank adjacent to the reverse side of said collar thrown laterally outward over the reverse surface of the said collar, substantially as decribed, and whereby the said collar becomes united to the said butt-on as apermanent part thereof and so as to form an annular flange around the shank.

3. A button having a tubular shank projecting from its back, the said shank reduced in diameter from its end toward the button and so as to form an annular shoulder around the shank at a point distant from the end of the shank, combined with a re-enforceg in said shank and between the said shoulder and the button, and an annular flange 0 around the said shank and interlocked therewith, so as to leave the tubular end of the shank projecting from the flange, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR. 

